Winter is here … ...
It’s winter here in New Zealand. Happens every year. Winter that is. However you would think by the shocked, horror filled expressions of the general population in Tauranga at the moment that our current season is more akin to a zombie apocalypse. It was 1...
A trip down memory lane
Memories are funny things don’t you think? Not always funny in a “ha ha” way … but funny “strange” sometimes. And Memories can both haunt … and comfort us. I am fascinated with what sparks a memory, at any time of the day or night and often when you least expect it. Maybe it’s a smell...
It’s not OK
It’s not ok. It’s never ok. I started a blog last week. My first two paragraphs: I have just read yet another news article about a 24 year old mum of one, found dead in her home with her 5 year old daughter asleep in the next room, presumably (and hopefully) unaware of the terror and...
A New Normal
Nothing can prepare you for the death of a parent. We all know it is going to happen ~ some day, but you don’t tend to dwell on how that might feel, what that empty space will actually feel like. Well I didn’t anyway. My Dad passed away on August 30th. Feels weird writing that to be...
A Celebration of Friend...
I have a recollection from when I was about 24 years old … my mother made a comment that she had been friends with her bridesmaid for over 30 years. At that time I remember thinking “oh my god – imagine that, that’s FOREVER” … Fast forward 20 years and I have recently returned from a...
Respect All ~ Fear None
I love nothing more than the value I receive as a parent, by simply having a conversation with my kids. It may be a deep and meaningful discussion around a story that has hit news headlines … or chatting about what happened at school or work that day, it might be sharing a series of...
